Altogether elsewhere : writers on exile / edited by Marc Robinson.

Includes bibliographical reference (pages 399-404).

The condition we call exile : an address / Joseph Brodsky -- A letter from exile, to Don Espejuelo / Breyten Breytenbach -- How I got over / Darryl Pinckney -- Notes on exile / Czeslaw Milosz -- The philosophy of travel / George Santayana -- A guide to exiles, expatriates, and internal emigrés / Mary McCarthy -- Exile / Austin Clarke -- What exile is / Victor Hugo -- The émigrés and the begrudgers / Miguel de Unamuno -- My country / Mary Antin -- An insistence of memory / Marina Tsvetaeva -- The exiled writer's relationship to his homeland : an address / Thomas Mann -- On exile / Madame de Staël -- We refugees / Hannah Arendt -- Africa in exile / Es'kia Mphahlele -- Heimat / Hilde Domin -- A German poet / Heinrich Heine -- Reflections on exile / Edward Said -- Advantages of exile / E.M. Cioran -- A reply to Cioran / Witold Gombrowicz -- In consolation-- a letter from exile to his mother, Helvia / Seneca.

The fellowship of exile / Julio Cortázar -- The exile as African / Breyten Breytenbach -- A letter from exile-- in protest to a French friend who had termed life in Italy an "exile" / Petrarch -- In praise of exile / Leszek Kolakowski -- One true sentence / Fernando Alegría -- To a young exile / Plutarch -- Why do Americans live in Europe? / Harry Crosby -- Exile / William H. Gass -- Obsessed with words / Eva Hoffman -- Lungs and gills / Vassily Aksyonov -- Writing : a metaphor of exile / Augusto Roa Bastos -- Tongue-tied eloquence : notes on language, exile, and writing / Stanislaw Baranczak -- A women and her poems / Belkis Cuza Malé -- The working problems of the writer in exile / Lion Feuchtwanger -- The typewriter made me do it / Jan Novak -- Am emigré from immortality ; A hero of labor / Marina Tsvetaeva -- The new lost generation / James Baldwin -- Fifth walk / Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Encounter with New York / Lewis Nkosi -- A letter from exile-- proposal for a long stay in Vaucluse / Petrarch -- They were emigrants / Heinrich Heine.

The rains of New York / Albert Camas -- Frankfurt in our blood / Kay Boyle -- Disinheritance : an address / Ruth Prawer Jhabvala -- Poland revisited / Joseph Conrad -- A letter from exile-- his love of travel; and unwillingness to make a permanent residence in Venice / Petrarch -- The hounded travelers / Henry de Montherlant -- Another view of the homestead / Christina Stead -- Good-bye Wisconsin / Glenway Wescott -- An apartment in the city / Janet Frame -- Pencilled notes / Isabelle Eberhardt.